Nominations Open for 2017 Red Hat Innovation Awards

Awards program recognizes Red Hat partners and customers for their
innovative and creative use of Red Hat technologies; Award recipients to
be honored at Red Hat Summit 2017

September 12, 2016 08:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time

RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced that it is accepting nominations for the 2017
Red Hat Innovation Awards.

Since 2007, the Red Hat Innovation Awards have recognized Red Hat's
global customers and partners for the transformative projects and
outstanding results they have experienced with Red Hat's open source
solutions.

Organizations can submit nominations in five categories. Category
winners will be selected based on the uniqueness, complexity, and
magnitude of their Red Hat implementations. Categories for the 2017 Red
Hat Innovation Awards include:

Enterprise transformation: Recognizing the most outstanding
transition from legacy IT to a self-service leader and business
partner in the digital world.

DevOps implementation: Recognizing the best implementation of a
complete DevOps strategy, including culture, automation, and platform
changes, to meet new customer expectations.

The open source way: Recognizing an organization that is
leading innovation by building an open source culture, contributing to
community projects, and using open source technology to support a
broad range of applications and business services.

Submissions will be accepted until Nov. 9, 2016, and will be evaluated
by a panel of business and open source technology experts including
Ashesh Badani, vice president and general manager, OpenShift; Swapnil
Bhartiya, journalist, IDG Contributor Network; Marco Bill-Peter, vice
president, Customer Experience and Engagement; Dietmar Fauser, vice
president, architecture, quality and governance, Amadeus; Sean Michael
Kerner, senior editor, eWeek; Christopher Rommel, executive vice
president, IoT and embedded technology, VDC Research; and Chris Wright,
vice president and chief technologist, Office of Technology, Red Hat. A
winner will be chosen in each category. From those winners, the 2017 Red
Hat Innovator of the Year will be selected by the community through
online voting, and will be announced during an awards ceremony at the
2017 Red Hat Summit in Boston.

Supporting Quote

Marco Bill-Peter, vice president, Customer Experience and Engagement,
Red Hat“Red Hat customers and partners are the driving force
behind our success. It’s an honor every year to recognize companies
using Red Hat technology in creative and exciting ways to help advance
or transform their businesses, solve complex challenges, and meet
customer needs.”

Red Hat is the world's leading provider of open source software
solutions, using a community-powered approach to provide reliable and
high-performing cloud, Linux, middleware, storage and virtualization
technologies. Red Hat also offers award-winning support, training, and
consulting services. As a connective hub in a global network of
enterprises, partners, and open source communities, Red Hat helps create
relevant, innovative technologies that liberate resources for growth and
prepare customers for the future of IT. Learn more at http://www.redhat.com.

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